Must be able to hit, skate, shoot. Patience is also an asset for this position as your center will want to skate circles in the ice before he decides whether to enter the offensive zone. Do not apply unless you have the ability to receive passes from all angles and directions, bat pucks out
of the air, and accept pucks dished at your feet when surrounded by three
defending players also required. Must be willing to battle on the boards but also to move out of the periphery (with or without line-mates). Former third and fourth line players with the ability to turn a 50-60 point center into a 70-80 point center will be given preference. Scoring an asset, but not necessarily required.

However regretable and crappy, A Head shot is still part of the play… It is part of the game of hockey and happens in context on the ice.

Touching/Assaulting a fan:

Player Sued. Coach Sued. Team guy plays for Sued. League Sued.

And depending on how & where the game is played and arena ownership issues:

Home Team sued. Arena Sued. Security Sued.

Plus the league looks foolish. (10 games, +3 for the linesman and i wish they’d give him +5 for the sucker punch… but i’m cruel… I would have started the season suspending Camelleri for 5… and Doan would be sitting a hell of a lot longer then 3…)

I also think that Cammy needs to calm things down a little bit when he gets the puck high on the side. He seems to rush things.

I’ve seen AK do it a bit, and I’d like to see Cammy and Gio try it: The Kovy Loop. Remember that? He’d get the puck on the boards and circle. He’d drift down for a shot, and if there was none, he’d swing back around, then drift back down again. If there was a shot, he’d zing it in after having lulled the defense into a false sense of security. If he missed, there’d be rebounds to bang in.

Ok , so lets all us “arm chair quarterbacks” take a shot at fixing the power play, me first: Yes the key is using the point…and the habs do that, good, but the point is realy only effective when a big hulking forward is in front of the net (not kind of in front, but smack in the screen of the goalie,taking some jabs from a defender)…this the habs don,t do well cause Gio is just to small!! Our defence needs to be more mobile and rotate down low looking for the “quick pass” to the back door or slot and they must have a quick release shooter to one-time the puck “cammy or Pleks”

According to the Fourth Period, Canadiens defenseman Andrei Markov appears close to signing a long-term contract extension that will keep him in Montreal for another five to six seasons. According to Montreal sports radio host Tony Marinaro, Markov will “definitely” sign a new deal with the Habs.

Aside from Cammy and Gionta, AK is the only guy who has the talent to be a pure scorer for the Habs, we need more than two of them and frankly, I’m not sure if Hartnell’s personality would fit in with the Habs locker room.

Andrei’s getting it going this season and it could be a mistake to drop him, he’s got a stable home life which is a huge difference for a player’s peace of mind and dropping him just means we lose the triple-attack benefit of the AK-Pleks-Cammy line to give the Gio-Gomez line their winger, at a higher cost and the valuable asset we dealt to get Hartnell. Pacioretty, Schultz and others are being looked at as that power forward, gatecrasher for the team on low salaries, I’d say see what swings out of their development in a season.

Their D is a joke! Not trading lecavalier was the dumbest thing they ever did. Either that, or in keeping levacalier, I think they would have been better off drafting doughty over stamkos, and than duchene over hedman, but hindsight is always 20/20.

Ive said time and time again, why would you sign your franchise center to a ridiculous deal, only to draft a franchise center when you know you have huge holes on defense and nothing in the pipeline? I guess thats why Brian Lawton is out of a job.